Ann Neath

Ann Neath

HO 144/10346 and PCOM 8/360

Killed, with a pair of scissors, the child she had just delivered. There is reference to a previous manslaughter conviction in 1918. Neath was convicted at Leeds on 5 March 1921 for murder and sentenced to death (commuted). She contracted tuberculosis in prison and died three years after her release in 1929